1118 Explained
Year 1118 (MCXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
Europe
British Isles
Eastern Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Scandinavia
Spain
East Asia
Caucasus
Western Asia
South Asia
Births
- November 28 - Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1180)
- Ahmad al-Rifa'i, Arab founder of the Rifa'i Sufi Order
- Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1185)
- Christina of Denmark, queen of Norway (approximate date)
- Gualdim Pais, Portuguese knight and Grand Master (d. 1195)
- Hartwig of Stade, archbishop of Bremen (d. 1168)
- Narathu, Burmese ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (d. 1171)
- Nur ad-Din, Seljuk ruler of Damascus and Aleppo (d. 1174)
- Odo II, French nobleman (House of Burgundy) (d. 1162)
- Roger III, Norman duke of Apulia and Calabria (d. 1148)
- Roger of Worcester, English bishop (approximate date)
- Saigyō Hōshi, Japanese poet and writer (d. 1190)
- Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese military leader (d. 1181)
- Vakhtang (or Tsuata), Georgian nobleman (d. 1138)
Deaths
- January 21 - Paschal II, pope of the Catholic Church
- April 2 - Baldwin I (of Boulogne), king of Jerusalem
- May 1 - Matilda of Scotland, queen of England (b. c.1080)[7]
- June 5 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
- July 3 - Raymond of Toulouse, French chanter
- August 6 - Al-Mustazhir, Abbasid caliph (b. 1078)
- August 15 - Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor
- November 28 - Philippa, French noblewoman
- Al-Tighnari, Arab botanist and physician (b. 1073)
- Anseau of Garlande, French nobleman (b. 1069)
- Arnulf of Chocques, patriarch of Jerusalem
- Arslan-Shah, sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire
- Basil the Physician, Bogomil religious leader
- Florence of Worcester, English monk
- Fujiwara no Nakazane, Japanese nobleman (b. 1057)
- Furong Daokai, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 1043)
- George of Chqondidi, Georgian archbishop
- Gissur Ísleifsson, Icelandic bishop
- Helperich, margrave of the Nordmark
- Hugh I, French nobleman (b. 1040)
- Jaquinta of Bari, queen of Duklja
- Lidanus, Lombard Benedictine abbot (b. 1026)
- Maria of Alania, Byzantine empress (b. 1053)
- Milo II of Montlhéry, French nobleman
- Muhammad I (Tapar), Seljuk sultan (b. 1082)
- Philip, king of Sweden (House of Stenkil)
- Ruaidrí na Saide Buide, king of Connacht
- Vladimir II, king of Duklja (approximate date)
- William V of Angoulême, French nobleman
Notes and References
- Book: Palmer. Alan. Palmer. Veronica. 1992. The Chronology of British History. Century Ltd. London. 59–60. 0-7126-5616-2.
- Web site: Peterborough Cathedral website. 2007-12-19.
- Book: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. London. Penguin. Revised. 2003. 978-0-140-44899-3. x. registration.
- Book: Stalls, Clay. Possessing the land: Aragon's expansion into Islam's Ebro frontier under Alfonso the Battler, 1104-1134. 1995. Brill. 90-04-10367-8. viii.
- Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.86.
- McGrank. Lawrence. Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55. Journal of Medieval History. 1981. 7. 1. 67–82. 10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.
- Web site: 5 forgotten queens and princesses of Scotland . www.scotsman.com . 4 May 2022 . en.